Tuesday, June 9, 2009

In THE ROAD Vigo Mortensen plays a father who transports his little son to safety after a huge nuclear explosion had destroyed the world and battles starving stragglers and marauding packs of cannibals in his way. Beside Vigo, the amazing cast also includes Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall and Guy Pearce.

I'm not obsessed with zombie/cannibal/apocalyptic thrillers either but I liked the unusual suspense in this trailer, so I'll give it a go, especially since it's really rare to see such actors in such genre.

It would've been rare to see such actors in this genre... ...if this was a zombie/apocalyptic thriller. :) But this is a classic survival drama/thriller (in its form). The only thing it has in common with apocalyptic genre are near future and "end of the world" premise. Even so, its core setting and story progress are most easily associated with survival drama/thriller.